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Is there anything more depressing than reading old price guides?

  1. jimmyd13 Apr 5, 2019

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    Like this "circa 1970" Speedmaster in the $4-600 range?
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    You could spend a little more on a "professional" from 1969 with the NASA caseback...
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    Or really give that wallet a hit with some of the newer versions ...
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    This guide is from 2001. You can now all kick yourselves or feel suitably smug, depending on when you started buying.
     
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  2. watchcollect Apr 5, 2019

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    Unfortunately, I was too busy drinking and partying to have noticed. ::shy::
     
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  3. 77deluxe Apr 5, 2019

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    About the same as thinking about what you didn’t get a decade ago.
     
  4. neilfrancis Apr 5, 2019

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    There is too much money in the world. Quadri-trillions more dollars in existence now than even just 10 years ago. It all has to go somewhere. And ultimately it will all go up in flames.

    We are doomed.
     
  5. Au79 Aluminium Apr 5, 2019

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    Well, that's not depressing....
     
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  6. Wryfox Apr 5, 2019

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    As I was reading, I was trying to guess what year this was from, I guessed 1983. Boy was I wrong.:eek:
     
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  7. Screwbacks Apr 5, 2019

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    not at all, with this $6 reference book.

    actually, interesting.

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  8. Tony C. Ωf Jury member Apr 5, 2019

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    Here's a good one. The "Olympic Timer" stop watch cost four times that of a 13ZN chronograph. Having said, those stop watches were top-class, and featured outstanding (and beautiful) movements.

    Perhaps the more amusing comparison is with the tiny Nurse's watch, as the 13ZN cost just 2.5x as much! Now? Oh, anywhere from 100 to 1000x

    [​IMG]
     
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  9. peepthetoad Apr 5, 2019

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    but accounting inflation, isn't $400-600 in the 70s equivalent to around $2000-3000 now?
     
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  10. jimmyd13 Apr 5, 2019

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    The price guide is from 2001 ... and an Ed White now is ... £10,000+?
     
  11. Fatcat Apr 5, 2019

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    I sold my Delorean 2 years ago, maybe have to keep it and travel to 1968 and buy everything
    :)))))))))
     
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  12. oddboy Zero to Grail+2998 In Six Months Apr 5, 2019

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    "Is there anything more depressing than reading old pricing guides?"

    Yes, reading modern ones.
     
  13. peepthetoad Apr 5, 2019

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    Sorry does that mean you can buy a 70s speedy in 2001 for $400 or that is the price of a speedy in the 70s reported in 2001?
     
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  14. eugeneandresson 'I used a hammer, a chisel, and my fingers' Apr 5, 2019

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    Thats exactly why I’d rather have luvly vintage watches instead of money :whistling:
     
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  15. eugeneandresson 'I used a hammer, a chisel, and my fingers' Apr 5, 2019

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    If this guide is correct for 2001, then a solid gold one was $3500. Doesn’t seem right?
     
  16. cristos71 Apr 5, 2019

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    That's the 2001 price of a 70's Speedmaster.
     
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  17. jimmyd13 Apr 5, 2019

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    The book was printed in 2001 and the prices quoted are those you should expect to pay for a "1970s" Speedmaster in 2001. However, the watch illustrated isn't a 1970s watch. It's a pre-professional Ed White or earlier ... something that you can't get today below £10,000 in pretty much any condition (assuming it's "correct").
    A lot of the illustrations and descriptions are off so I'm not claiming that the prices are gospel. Did anyone buy a BA145.022 in 2001?
     
  18. Shankified Apr 5, 2019

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    I was too young to be in my teens :(
     
  19. peepthetoad Apr 5, 2019

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    I was eating playdoh at that time lol
     
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  20. watchcollect Apr 5, 2019

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    Unfortunately/ fortunately I grew up in Bangkok and was definitely drinking in my teens. Much earlier then 2001...:whistling:
     
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